According to a report by CLSA, India’s wireline broadband market is witnessing an uptick in subscriber base with one million new connections this year. This is more than subscriber additions of FY17-20 combined. The...
Read MoreYotta Infrastructure and Pi have entered into a strategic partnership to offer data centre and cloud services to their customers. The collaboration between the two entities makes the Indian market broader for the customers who...
Read MoreIn a recently written letter to the government, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) stated that any move to delicense or allocate high-value E and V bands administratively would be technically unfeasible, in...
Read MoreTo strengthen the communication network for Indian Army, ITI Limited, a telecom and defense equipment manufacturing PSU has today signed Rs 77.96 billion Phase IV Project of Army Static Switched Communication Network (ASCON) for...
Read MoreAccording to a recent report published by EY and Towers and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA), telecom tower penetration in India in the last decade has reached 83 per cent, second only to China’s 100 per cent, and...
Read MoreThe Department of Space (DoS) has objected to any airwaves allocation in the coveted 26 GHz millimeter wave band for 5G services. According to the DoS, it can cause interference between satellite and 5G mobile networks and...
Read MoreThe government has undertaken ‘Ghar tak Fibre’ project to extend optical fibre connectivity to villages across India under BharatNet initiative. Initially, the government will be inaugurating the project in Bihar, followed by...
Read MoreThe timeline for completion of BharatNet Phase II will now be extended as its pace was affected by the lockdown and restrictions on movement imposed amid Covid-19 crisis. The announcement was made by the minister of state for...
Read MoreITI Limited has received a letter of intent (LoI) from Bharti Airtel for rollout of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) in Airtel’s eight circles in the country. To this end, ITI Limited will work on laying optical fibre backbone to...
Read MoreRavi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Telecommunications and Electronics and Information Technology has inaugurated next generation network telephone exchange at New Bihar Vidhan Mandal and Bharat AirFibre service at Danapur...
Read MoreAccording to West Bengal’s chief minister, Reliance Jio will be investing over Rs 10 billion in establishing a cable landing station in the port town of Digha. This would increase the state’s sub-sea broadband connectivity links...
Read MoreThe Goa government has cleared the state telecommunication infrastructure policy 2020, which will adopt a single-window clearance for setting up mobile towers in the state. The policy was approved during a state cabinet meeting...
Read MoreAccording to Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Telecommunications and Electronics and Information Technology, work for Rs 3,370 million project to provide mobile services in 354 uncovered villages in remote and border areas of...
Read MoreThe Indian government has launched Rs 12.24 billion worth submarine optical fibre cable project in Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This optic fibre cable network will connect Chennai and Andaman and Nicobar Islands and boost 4G...
Read MoreBharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched Bharat Air Fibre, a radio-based last mile telecom connectivity solution, for Akola and Washim districts in Maharashtra. This will enable residents of Akola and Washim districts to...
Read MoreIn a recent meeting held by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), seven states and two Union Territories (UT)have agreed to uniform pricing on right of way (RoW) in telecom. The development came at the review meeting on...
Read MoreSterlite Power has completed its Gurugram Smart City project for creating an intracity fibre network for the city’s communication needs. The company’s convergence business had entered a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement...
Read MoreIn a letter addressed to telecom secretary Anshu Prakash, the Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) has stated that state governments and union territories (UTs) are obstructing installation of mobile towers due...
Read MoreYotta Infrastructure, a Hiranandani Group subsidiary and a managed data centre service provider developing hyper-scale data centre parks in India has inaugurated India’s largest data centre building, Yotta NM1, in a...
Read MoreThe Asia Direct Cable (ADC) Consortium, of which Tata Communications is a member, is building a high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore,...
Read MoreThe Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) has requested various state governments to reduce the electricity tariffs levied by them in view of the prevailing situation. To this end, TAIPA has written to chief...
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